Father Edward Carley, historian for the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware, which includes Maryland's Eastern Shore (East of the Chesapeak Bay), writes that "all of the Acadians had departed from the Eastens Shore by 1775. It was a very inhospitable territory for Roman Catholics and foreigners. Some few Acadians went to Baltimore, most set sail for Louisiana."

In late spring of 1765, one Landry (probably Joseph), addressed a
petition to Governor Horatio Sharpe, on behalf of the Acadians in Maryland and Pennsylvania to be allowed to settle in Nova Scotia, either on the Bay of Gaspe or Chaleur. Frustrated in their attempts to re-settle in Acadia, they requested settlement in Louisiana.

In 1765, the Acadians petitioned the Justice of the Peace of Cecil County for help to leave Maryland for the Mississippi. (History of Cecil County, Maryland - Elkton, 1881 - p. 263)

Some ships left 2 years later, when in late March, 1767, Cecil County Justice of the Peace provided passage aboard the scooner VIRGIN , Thomas Farrold, Master, square stern, 60 ton, Six men, built in Maryland in 1762. Registered Pocomoke, 17 January, 1762. Owners of present voyage, Peter Hulbert and Johnathan Plowman. 200 passengers with their baggage, Bound for Mississippi.
(Basil Sollers Maryland Historical Magazine - March 1908 vol. III no. 1, pp 1-6)The Acadians (French Neutrals) Transported to Maryland (taken from History of Cecil County On April 9, 1767 The Maryland Gazette announced the sailing of the Scooner VIRGIN, Captain Thomas Gerrald , on May 5, 1767 from Baltimore with a stop at Patuxent. (Letter from A. N. Lafreniere)

The Maryland Gazette reported that the scooner VIRGIN cleared Annapolis in 1767 (April 9, 1767, Annapolis), but reports show that the passengers of this ship ended up in Sante Fe. (B. Sollers, "Report on Smyth, A Tour of U.S.A. - London, 1784, ":Maryland Historical Magazine, 4 (1909):279. It is believed that the scooner VIRGIN was the second ship to leave Maryland for Louisiana. Between 1766 and 1770, 782 (90%) of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Acadians left for Louisiana.

During the 78 day voyage, including the seventeen days stop at
Guarico, from the Port of Baltimore, Province of Maryland, from which they departed for this port, Amand Hebert, Head of Family, and Mary Landry died. Oliver Babin and Marguerite Hernandez were born. On the 27th of July, the ship had reached New Orleans. (George White)

In 1770, a haggard band of 30 Acadians arrived at Natchitoces,
Louisiana after a fifteen month ordeal of shipboard starvation, mutiny, shipwreck, imprisonment and forced labor in Spanish Texas, and finally a 420 mile overland trek to Louisiana. After successfully resisting government efforts to permanently settle them in the Natchitoces post, these refugees established homes, first in the Iberville diustrict and later at Opelousas.
(Carl A. Brasseaux - "Scattered To The Wind" - Dispersal and Wanderings of the Acadians p. 67).

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